In bookstores, we only see the finished product of a body of work, but the Internet allows us to explore a collection of drafts. We can chart the progress or history of a website thanks to the Wayback Machine.

The Wayback Machine: www.archive.org allows you to browse through 30 billion Web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To use this site type in the URL of a site or page of which you would like to research, and click the Take Me Back button. Once you have conducted your search, select from the archived dates available.

Try looking at the history of this Martin Luther King site. The site, www.martinlutherking.org seems like a good site for students to find information about Martin Luther King Jr. The URL contains his name, and if you search for Martin Luther King in Google, this site usually appears in your top five results, claiming it is a “valuable resource for students and teachers.” As you read the material on the site, you will find very negative and misleading information about Dr. King. It is published by a White Pride organization called Stormfront. In fact because it is a hate site, it will be blocked by many Internet filters.

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